Strategy For Integrated Development of Arunachal Pradesh

Even though the country has a Planning Commission, chaired by the Prime Minister and a wholetime Deputy Chairman, often the micro regions, like Arunachal Pradesh, do not find their due focus and the priority, they do so badly need and so abundantly deserve. The treatise in hand tries to fill that void. The book focuses on the development issues of the micro-region and brings the pearls of wisdom out of the imbroglio of development milieu of the state under reference. It is expected to assist the Planning bodies, administrators, planners, educators and teachers in projecting the development issues and also in suggesting viable and practical solutions. The seventh chapter examines the various government planning models/schemes and goes on to suggest the most comprehensive, technically sound and easy to implement, model for the development of the state in coming years and decades. The book being the outcome of years of research evolves an all encompassing approach to numerous issues, which are often unique to the region, tries to unfold even the problems that are very specific and special to this hill state of India.

S.P. Shukla (b.1939) in the rural environs of eastern Uttar Pradesh, is a self made man. Destiny placed him in the laps of Eastern Himalayas when he travelled to NEFA (Arunachal Pradesh) in 1962. Ever since he has remained deeply involved in the upliftment of the tribal society of the state. For more than 38 years he remained associated not only with the land and people of the area but also with socio-cultural, geopolitical and economic growth of the region. It is, therefore, nut natural that barring a few o his writings, all of them ( 8 books, 31 research papers) find a base in the grains and the multitudes of the state. Strategy for Integrated Development of Arunachal Pradesh is the ninth book of the scholar and is a clear reflection of the author's vision about the economic development of the State.